Sentences with phrase «newborn death resulting»

Not exact matches

The mission of the Save Babies Through Screening Foundation is to improve the lives of children and their families, by working to prevent disabilities and death resulting from disorders detectable through newborn screening tests.

newborn anemia, respiratory distress leading to brain damage and / or death (rare, yes, but it happens), inadequate blood supply resulting in a need for transfusion, possible heart defects resulting from problems closing off the hole in the heart valves following birth.

Although it appears that the preventable newborn deaths at home and hospital birth balance out, homebirth is clearly safer when you take into consideration the risk of maternal death that 20 % of low risk U.S. women face as a result of avoidable cesareans which became necessary because they went to hospital.

In industrialized nations deaths were most likely to result from babies being born too small or too early, while in the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrhea.

Vitamin K shots are routinely administered to newborn babies because 1.8 out of every 100,000 babies who do not receive vitamin K injections suffer permanent injury or death due to uncontrolled bleeding in the brain that may be the result of having extremely low levels of vitamin K in their systems.

According to the report, midwives could reduce maternal and newborn deaths by two thirds and investments in midwifery training at an international level could result in a 1,600 per cent return on investment.

No apnea, episodes of cyanosis, documented apparent aspirations, NICU admissions, or deaths resulting from spitting up were found in any newborn awake or asleep, regardless of position.

In low - and middle - income countries, 1 in 5 babies is born too small (with a low birth weight) resulting in 20 % of newborn deaths.

Now, it is being deployed to monitor the Zika as it spreads beyond Brazil, where reports last August of fetal deaths and newborns with brain disorders including microcephaly, a devastating condition that results in abnormally small brains and heads, began to trickle in.

This resulted in the proportion of newborn deaths increasing from 39.3 % in 2000 to 45.1 % in 2015.

Bass notes that many of these deaths may be the result of sudden unexpected postnatal collapse (SUPC), a sudden collapse — sometimes with full respiratory and cardiac arrest — of an apparently healthy newborn born at more than 35 weeks gestation.

Previous research has found that inadequate feeding of quality colostrum to newborn calves can result in reduced growth rates, increased risk of disease and death, increased risk of being culled, and decreased milk production in the first and second lactations.

Conditions such as anoxia, hypoxia, birth asphyxia, and perinatal asphyxia present terrifying risks in newborns and can result in severe symptoms and in some cases, death.

Persistent pulmonary hypertension, which is a defect resulting in high blood pressure of the lungs in newborns and can sometimes be so serious that it leads to death